PAM_THINKFINGER

NAME

DESCRIPTION

ThinkFinger is a driver for the UPEK/SGS Thomson Microelectronics
fingerprint reader (USB ID 0483:2016). The device is being found
either as a standalone USB device, built into USB keyboards or built
into laptops (mostly Dell, IBM/Lenovo and Toshiba).

pam_thinkfinger
is the PAM module responsible for fingerprint authentication through
libthinkfinger. The module does only trigger for users which have
deposited their fingerprint in the /etc/pam_thinkfinger folder.

OPTIONS

REQUIREMENTS

In order to use the the PAM module pam_thinkfinger, your Linux kernel has to be
compiled with uinput support (CONFIG_INPUT_UINPUT). The location of the uinput
interface depends on your distribution. To ensure that your system is properly
set up, one of the following interfaces has to exist:

/dev/input/uinput

/dev/misc/uinput

/dev/uinput

If the interface is not there, run:

$ modprobe uinput

Ask the maintainers of your distribution to automatically load the module.

FILES

/etc/pam_thinkfinger

The default folder where the fingerprint for login users are stored

/lib/security

The default folder for PAM modules

EXAMPLES

Add the following line to /etc/pam.d/common-auth:

sufficient auth pam_thinkfinger.so

To enable debugging support via syslog(3), add the following line to /etc/pam.d/common-auth:

BUGS

SEE ALSO

AUTHORS

ThinkFinger was written by Timo Hoenig <thoenig@suse.de> and Pavel
Machek <pavel@suse.cz> and is licensed under the terms of the GNU
General Public License (GPL).

This manual page was written by Luca Capello <luca@pca.it>. Additions
by Jose Plans.
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).